Constituency
508. Midnapore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-MIDNAPORE
INC 40.3%won by 6.3%CPI 34.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: BAC (BAC) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 43.4% to 40.3% of the vote here (−3.1%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 34.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.2% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.0% to 65.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,29,679
Turnout
65.8%
Valid votes
3,48,390
Margin
22,009
6.32%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SUBODH CHANDRA HANSDAIndian National Congress · INC1,40,32640.3%
- 2CHOUBEY NARAYANCommunist Party of India · CPI1,18,31734.0%
- 3SUBHENDU ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM39,56911.4%
- 4KRISHNA DAS ROYNCO · NCO29,9858.6%
- 5BINOYENDRA NATH DASGUPTABAC · BAC20,1935.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BAC
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- −37.1%
- INC share
- 43.4% → 40.3%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 34.0%
- Turnout
- 68.8% → 65.8%